This Day in History - 1/18/26

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - It was this date in 1951 a gas explosion in a coal mine in Kermit, West Virginia killed 11 miners, injured two others.

It was the Burning Springs Collieries Company Mine where 25 miners were inside the mine at the time. The other dozen made it out okay.

Those who died were rough 4,000 feet into the mine, and there was no way to rescue them from the explosion.